Declining racial and ethnic representation in clinical academic medicine: A longitudinal study of 16 US medical specialties

PLoS ONE

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2018, Pages

  Lett, Lanair Amaad ^a   Orji, Whitney U ^a   Sebro, Ronnie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MINORITY GROUP; OBSTETRICS; PHYSICIAN; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WORKFORCE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HISPANIC; MALE; MEDICINE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACULTY, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICINE; MINORITY GROUPS; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85056700216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207274     Document Type: Article

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